I really think we need a legal definition of man and woman to shut down all the stupid debates. Men who think they are women have no place in women's sports.
I feel like the simplest definition is a woman must have two X chromosomes. Or maybe a woman cannot have a Y chromosome. Something like that. I know that there are one-in-a-million instances of people who have some weird genetic anomaly that makes them fit both or neither description, but in those cases we can allow those individuals discretion to decide whether they are male or female. When a description is accurate 99.999% of the time, that's good enough. The exceptions shouldn't dictate the discussion.
Because of defects, the standard definition is, and needs to be asserted as, Y presence is male, Y absence is female. Y presence is determined solely by the sperm and is regulated by the presence or absence of the SRY gene.
Klinefelter syndrome is XXY males, 1 in 2,500 males diagnosed, possibly 4 times as frequent undiagnosed. There are several other defects. 99.9% is perhaps a fair order of magnitude.
I really think we need a legal definition of man and woman to shut down all the stupid debates. Men who think they are women have no place in women's sports.
I feel like the simplest definition is a woman must have two X chromosomes. Or maybe a woman cannot have a Y chromosome. Something like that. I know that there are one-in-a-million instances of people who have some weird genetic anomaly that makes them fit both or neither description, but in those cases we can allow those individuals discretion to decide whether they are male or female. When a description is accurate 99.999% of the time, that's good enough. The exceptions shouldn't dictate the discussion.
Because of defects, the standard definition is, and needs to be asserted as, Y presence is male, Y absence is female. Y presence is determined solely by the sperm and is regulated by the presence or absence of the SRY gene.
Klinefelter syndrome is XXY males, 1 in 2,500 males diagnosed, possibly 4 times as frequent undiagnosed. There are several other defects. 99.9% is perhaps a fair order of magnitude.